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Apr 29, 2024 · Located just outside Detroit, Dearborn offers travellers a unique chance to eat their way through the Middle East while exploring how Arab Americans have shaped the nation.
Feb 12, 2024 · The city became the first Arab-majority city in the U.S. in 2023, with roughly 55% of the city’s 110,000 residents claiming Middle Eastern or North African ancestry on the 2023 census.
Dearborn is a city in Wayne County, Michigan, United States. It is an inner-ring suburb in Metro Detroit, bordering Detroit to the south and west, and roughly 7 miles (11.3 km) west of downtown Detroit. In the 2020 census, it had a population of 109,976, ranking as the seventh-most populous city in Michigan.
The Detroit metropolitan area has one of the largest concentrations of people of Middle Eastern origin, including Arabs and Chaldo-Assyrians in the United States. [1] As of 2007 about 300,000 people in Southeast Michigan traced their descent from the Middle East. [2]
Jul 9, 2014 · So why has Michigan—and southeast Michigan in particular—continued to draw so many immigrants from the Arab world, creating one of the largest Arab communities outside the Middle East? Fortunately, the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn holds many of the answers.
Sep 26, 2023 · New U.S. Census Bureau data shows for the first time, people of Middle Eastern or North African ancestry make up the majority of Dearborn’s population, 54.5%.
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Feb 12, 2024 · As of 2023, Dearborn, Michigan, has become the largest city with an Arab majority in the US, with 55% of its 110,000 population claiming Middle Eastern or North African roots in the latest census.
